E-note, write, stick, erase and re-use

Digital post-it - conceptual work by sequoia-studio.

Data visualization and infographics resources for design inspiration | Design Label

Huge Collection: Data visualization and infographics resources for design inspiration | Design Label

digg labs

The labs provide a broader (and deeper) view of Digg. A lot of stuff gets submitted to Digg every day, so good things can sometimes fly right past you. Labs projects look beneath the surface of the Digg community's activities.

digg labs

Viewzi - its all about the views

Viewzi is a whole new way to experience search. Instead of one big list, you get nice visual Views tailored for the content you are looking for:

With traditional text-based search engines, no matter what or how you search, your results are basically the same. Searching for Bono looks the same as searching for chicken recipes or sports cars:

Viewzi Corporate Home

(via: http://travisisaacs.com/2008/04/21/get-some-viewzi/)

A tablet to call your own

"Rob Tannen and his team at the Bressler Group, where he is Director of Research, have been working on the FieldCREW User Research Concept Platform, photo above. In Tannen's own words, 'It's a concept design for a data gathering system for user researchers who...spend so much time gathering information to design high-tech products, but have very limited tools themselves. It also brings together some interesting 'near-future' technologies, like subvocalization to silently take notes while conducting field observations.'"

Design researchers: A tablet to call your own - Core77

Location Based Services 2008

Events next weeks at mobilepulse - mobile2.0 news

Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies

Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies: "Treemap 4.0: General treemap tool (Free demo version, plus licensing information for full package)
PhotoMesa: Zoomable image library browser (Free demo version, plus licensing information for full package)
Treemap Algorithms and Algorithm Animations (Open source Java code)"

Search 2.0 - Search between Commercial and Information

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from: Workshop “Das neue Netz”

What is social media?

An ebook about social media from iCrossing UK:

Social media is best understood as a group of new kinds of online
media, which share most or all of the following characteristics:

• Participation: social media encourages contributions and feedback from everyone who is interested. it blurs the line between media and audience. 
• Openness: most social media services are open to feedback and participation. they encourage voting, comments and the sharing of information. there are rarely any barriers to accessing and making use of content – password-protected content is frowned on. 
• Conversation: whereas traditional media is about “broadcast” (content transmitted or distributed to an audience) social media is better seen as a two-way conversation. 
• Community: social media allows communities to form quickly and communicate effectively. Communities share common interests, such as a love of photography, a political issue or a favourite tv show. 
• Connectedness: most kinds of social media thrive on their connectedness, making use of links to other sites, resources and people. 

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Cool Visualizations

Pool on Flickr: Cool Visualizations - Tecniche di visualizzazione dei dati: "Cool Visualizations"

2003 MSR Netscan Usenet Treemap by number of Posters auf Flickr - Fotosharing!

2003 MSR Netscan Usenet Treemap by number of Posters auf Flickr - Fotosharing!: "This is a treemap of the Usenet newsgroup discussion community space generated by the Netscan system at Microsoft Research. This map represents the number of unique authors in each Usenet newsgroup who appeared in the current year. Data on the number of 'posters' in each newsgroup was collected and calculated by the Netscan service. The area of each box is proportional to the number of authors that newsgroup attracted in the current year. Newsgroups with bigger poster populations create bigger boxes. Color maps to change from the prior year, green indicating growth and red for decline over the prior time period. The original sized image shows significant detail. The treemap tool is available for free download from the research.microsoft.com web site. It comes with an Excel plug-in that allows users to generate their own treemaps with any data they can get into a spreadsheet (that contains a properly formatted hierarchical data structure). Your mileage may vary. Netscan can be found at netscan.research.microsoft.com."

Web 2.0 Expo: Presentation Files

Presentation files will be made available after the session has concluded and the speaker has given us the files. Check back if you don't see the file you're looking for—it might be available later! (However, please note some speakers choose not to share their presentations.)

Presentation Files: Web 2.0 Expo Europe 2008 - Co-produced by TechWeb & O'Reilly Conferences, 21 October - 23, 2008, Berlin, Germany

aka-aki on the iPhone

Just a few minutes ago we did a presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo Europe and gave a preview of the aka-aki application for iPhone and iPod touch which is due to be out soon. For those who couldn’t be there at the venue, here’s another exclusive preview…"
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aka-aki: leute anklicken mit dem handy

Aka aki (A.k.a. Aki?) is a mobile client, who scans the space around a mobile user with blue tooth for other aka aki users. If they are indicated, their profile will be downloaded via UMTS, Edge or W-Lan from the aka aki-server to compare their likes and thougs. Profile can be edited at the aka-aki webpage.

Visual Think Map

"Sources examples of mind maps, notebook, sketches, info graphics, concept maps, diagrams, topographic maps, spatial cognitive visualisations"

Visual Think Map - Exploring creative innovative modes of visual communication of information

Gary Vaynerchuk on Web 2.0 Expo

Gary Vaynerchuk

Corporate Social Map

In July 2008 Ahead of Time developed a Social Map for Panasonic‘s brand LUMIX in cooperation with
Panasonic Deutschland.

"Since years we are very active in online marketing, like banner-campaigns or key-word advertising, as well as targeted eCRM campaigns with user-interaction. We realized that our current unstructured analysis of our activities do not give us relevant facts how to create even more-successful marketing strategies. Traditional methods reach their limits. That‘s why we decided to use the Social Map
Analysis to measure, reflect and re-organize our online marketing activities. The first results are showing us that this is the right way. A current Nielsen study showed that Panasonic is the leading corporate web-destination of all user electronic (UE) companies in Germany."

Find more at: AHEAD OF TIME
Download the Case-Study as a PDF-File.

Social Graph Central

A nice collection of social maps form different people.
Social Graph Central

Canal + Set Top Box

French company CANAL+ and Yves Behar/fuseproject are launching Le Cube, a television receiver with a satellite decoder, ethernet connection and built in gyroscopic sensor that automatically rotates the display allowing the box to be used in both a horizontal and vertical position.

The unit is intended to look minimal from a few feet away and reveal it's high detail up close, the remote control features a sculpted soft back surface which creates the illusion of floating when placed on a table.


Excerpts from the press release
LE CUBE, was a chance to make the typical "dumb" receiver, smart and beautiful at the same time. In order to do so we had to conceive of the receiver box, the remote, and the CANAL+ TV graphic interface at the same time: the integrated system brings information, personal preferences and communication to the living room before one has turned-on the TV. LE CUBE is the first step in bringing the new capabilities we have come to expect from cell-phones, computers and the Internet, to the way we interact with our television.

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Webpage: Canal +

OVERNEWSED BUT UNINFORMED

How News are seperated and displayed in papers:

OVERNEWSED BUT UNINFORMED || Diplomarbeit von STEFAN BRÄUTIGAM